A man tried committed suicide after poisoning family Azhar poisoned his wife and children over poverty Rescue teams reached spot and rushed family to hospital KARACHI: A man in Karachi tried to commit suicide after poisoning his family including his wife and children in frustration over poverty, reported BOL News on Friday. As per details, … Read more
Nilanthi Gunasekera, 49, clutches her family’s last handful of dried fish in her outstretched palms. She’s one of millions of Sri Lankans forced to miss meals, ration medicine, and cook with firewood instead of gas. “Now fish and meat are out of reach for our family,” Gunasekera added. “No meat or fish for two weeks. … Read more
Pakistan’s tax system is rife with corruption and evasion. This super tax would hurt the business sector, the financial and economic system’s backbone. Due to high inflation, layoffs and poverty may rise. The current administration levied a 10% direct’super tax’ on large-scale lucrative enterprises as a “poverty alleviation tax.” Raising the corporation and income tax … Read more
Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority announced Sunday an all-time sales report for April, incomes $629 million following a series of toll hikes for vessels transiting the critical waterway. Connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, the canal bills for roughly 10 percent of world maritime trade and is one of Egypt’s major assets of foreign currency … Read more
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Rising food charges which have been driven even higher through Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could pressure upwards of 10 million humans into poverty, on Tuesday. Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor and retaliatory sanctions imposed by the West starting in past due February have brought on a spike in crude … Read more
We often hear that climate change disproportionately impacts the poor and the scenarios are worrisome. For example, climate change will lead to up to a 300 per cent increase in extreme poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by 2030. Beneath this alarming headline, we know that climate-related losses will fluctuate across time and … Read more
Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam (JUI-F) Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday said the incumbent rulers have pushed the people into destitution and mortgaged the country to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Addressing a public gathering in Chaman, he said the foreign reserves have plummeted to ‘zero’ as the country has been mortgaged to IMF. JUI-F chief said … Read more
KABUL: Married off at seven to a man old enough to be her great-grandfather, Fatema endured rapes, beatings and starvation until she could take no more and tried to kill herself. Through tears she recalls the beatings she received — like the time, aged 10, she was flung against a wall. “My head crashed against … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday expressed confidence that the extraordinary session of the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) will act as an impetus for the member states to assist Afghanistan. The premier held separate meetings with the OIC Secretary General Hussein Ibrahim Taha and foreign ministers of member countries including Saudi Arabia, Iran, … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday called OIC’s decision to establish a fund for Afghanistan for the revival of its banking system a ‘great success’ of the moot. A day after the 17th Extraordinary Session of Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers, the foreign minister said Allah had bestowed Pakistan … Read more
ISLAMABAD: A day before Pakistan is set to host the 17th Extraordinary Session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Prime Minister Imran Khan reiterated his call for the world to recognize the emerging humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. In an interview with Al Jazeera, the premier stressed that if the world community does not step in … Read more
Recalling warnings by global agencies, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi asserted on Wednesday that 97 per cent of the Afghan population would plunge into poverty in the next six months if immediate measures were not taken, Radio Pakistan reported. Read more: Afghanistan’s SOS call Pakistan is hosting an extraordinary session of the Organisation of Islamic … Read more
TEGUCIGALPA: Marlon Escoto has been rummaging through rubbish since he was 14, trying to chase off vultures while picking out pieces of plastic and fragments of metal to sell. Ravaged by drug trafficking, violent gangs, corruption, political instability and hurricanes, Honduras sees more than half its 10 million people, 59 percent, scraping by in poverty. “I … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Poverty and unemployment are rampant in Sindh, despite 13 years consecutive rule of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) in the province, an official said. Responding to the statement of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said that Sindh is still the most deprived province where unemployment … Read more
KOTLI: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday said that the answers to soaring inflation and rising poverty in the country lied with his party. Addressing an election campaign rally in Kotli, Bilawal said, “Our opponents are unable to show their faces as those who have been defeated in elections cannot show … Read more
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday launched the Ehsaas School Stipend programme for the deserving households across the country in Islamabad. Speaking on the occasion, he said an important aspect of the programme is that it will help bring the out-of-school children especially the girls to educational institutions. “No attention was paid in the past … Read more
UNITED NATIONS: Inefficient global food production is at the root of a huge rise in hunger, as well as one-thirds of all emissions and 80 per cent of biodiversity loss, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned, in a call to all countries to transform food systems to speed up sustainable development. Up to 811 million … Read more
TARAR KHAL: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday said that the prime focus of his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) would be the development of the underprivileged people by providing them amenities of education, health and subsidised food. Addressing a large public gathering ahead of the election of AJK Legislative Assembly, … Read more
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Economic and Social Council’s President Ambassador Munir Akram of Pakistan has urged the world community to unite to combat rising poverty and hunger through measures that include social protection and relief programmes at the commemoration of ECOSOC’s 75th anniversary on Friday. “Scaled-up investment in sustainable infrastructure, an estimated requirement of $1 … Read more
“Ending the pandemic is possible — and requires global action now,” the heads of the World Health Organization (WHO), World Bank, World Trade Organization (WTO), and International Monetary Fund (IMF) wrote in a jointly penned op-ed in a newspaper. The world and its developed nations aim to have vaccinated the majority of their adult population … Read more
Covid-19 has affected the world in various ways, one of them is affecting the world economy. The entire world is badly shaken by the after-effects of the pandemic, the developed countries have faced numerous losses, whereas the underdeveloped countries are still struggling to get the vaccine. The partial ability of most developing and emerging economies … Read more
Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that lifting people out of poverty is the priority of the government by creating a system to deliver direct subsidies to the poor. Addressing the launch of UNDP Pakistan’s report on human development, the Prime Minister said that in my view, society is known for caring for the weaker … Read more
Millions of Indians are living abroad in search of a better life, but the country’s treatment of its migrants is now being focused on globally. A new study finds that India’s policies do not support integration in the context of public health, education, labour mobility and social discrimination. According to the Migrant Integration Policy Index … Read more
A couple committed suicide in the Tehsil Jaranwala of district Faisalabad, media sources reported on Thursday. According to the details, Shahbaz Masih and Tabeeta got married a year ago and were living in Chak 240, Jaranwala. The couple was living in extreme poverty, and on Thursday decided to take their life. The couple took their life by taking poisonous … Read more
World Bank has warned that 176 million people in South Asia are expected to be pushed into poverty due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. According to a report released by the World Bank, it stated that two-thirds of South Asia is on the verge of getting pushed into poverty. Officially, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh had … Read more
Prime Minister Imran Khan said, he fears the new coronavirus will devastate third-world economies. He also said, “Because of the effects of the economic slowdown, my worry is poverty and hunger.” Imran Khan has warned richer countries to prepare to write off the debts of the world’s poorer states, expressing fear the coronavirus could devastate … Read more
Prime Minister PM Imran Khan to launch Ehsaas Amdan Programme in Layyah today. As per details, PM Imran Khan to launch Ehsaas Amdan Programme in Layyah today. The move is to uplift of the poor and deserving people of the society. The Ehsaas Amdan Programme of 15 billion rupees is aimed at creating respectable livelihood … Read more
The President of the UN General Assembly has urged member states to support a new panel that has been set up to help make the anti-poverty Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a reality, by 2030. According to the sources of APP, Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the UNGA president and Mona Juul, the President of the UN Economic and … Read more
